Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence

Delft University of Technology

Arie van Deursen
Cynthia C. S. Liem

October 15, 2024

Agenda

  • Stocktake—what has been accomplished and where are we at?
  • Short-term—plans for the 3-4 months
  • Bigger picture—putting it all together
  • Beyond PhD—some tentative career plans
  • Admin—meeting series, …

Papers

Solid progress on chapters 3 to 5 of the thesis:

  • 2 papers published (ECCCo @ AAAI: [Ch3], Stop Making Unscientific AGI Claims @ ICML: [Ch5]).
  • 1 paper in progress (CE and Adversarial Robustness @ ICML/NeurIPS/workshops: [Ch4.1])
  • 1 paper initiated (Counterfactual Training @ ICML: [Ch4.2])
  • 1 paper (extended abstract) submitted (LaplaceRedux.jl @ JuliaCon)

Talks and Posters

A total of 12 talks and posters

  • Academia (4): AAAI (poster), ECONDAT, Imperial College London, ICML (poster)
  • Companies (3): De Nederlandsche Bank, The Alan Turing Institute, TÜV AI Lab (next week)
  • Software (5): JuliaCon (4 talks), Julia on HPC tutorial @ TU Delft

Open Source and Science

  • Unified ecosystem for Trustworthy AI in Julia, Taija.
    • Continuous maintenance and development, in particular CounterfactualExplanations.jl, LaplaceRedux.jl and ConformalPrediction.jl.
    • Work on various base and meta packages for parallelization, visualization and more.
  • Published 7 blog posts: personal (4), Taija (3)
  • Mentored two Google/Julia Summer of Code students who contributed to Taija: (1) causal recourse, (2) conformal Bayes.

Graduate School

  • 2-week Dutch course (4 ECTS: transferable).
  • 1 Research project (3rd year BSc): What Makes Models Explainable? (4 ECTS: research).
  • 1 Software project (2nd year BSc): TaijaInteractive.jl (2 ECTS: research).
  • 4 Master’s theses (4 ECTS: research)
  • NeurIPS 2024 reviewing (3 ECTS: research).
  • JuliaCon, ICML, AAAI, ECONDAT (2 ECTS each: research).

Total (missing): research (-21.5 ⚠️), discipline (5), transferable (6)

References